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SecondLife, a real new world: life, business and toxic immersion
1. Second Life:Life:
a real new worldnew world
life, business and toxic immersion
Daniele Montemale
University of Copenhagen
16 jan 2007
2. • Second Life (SL) is the closest thing to a
parallel universe existing on the Internet
• It was made publicly available in 2003 by
San Francisco-based Linden-lab
• SL can be accessed for free
• SL is a MMO (Massively Multiplayer
Online Game), “a place where thousand
of users interact with one another in the
guise of video game characters, on a
persistent basis: many hours a day,
every day, all year around.”
(Edward Castronova)
WHAT IS SECOND LIFE?
3. Users in SL are called
“residents” and exist in
SL with the use of an
avatar, a graphic
projection of
themselves.
8. All these MMO are
Synthetic worlds:
“an expansive,
world-like, represented
graphically in 3D,
large-group environment
made by humans,
for humans,
which is maintained,
recorded,
and rendered by a
computer”
(Edward Castronova)
31. On eBay, the category 1654 is for internet games where the users
can buy or sell items for games..the last year there was over US$
100 millon traded in games..
62. “The Membrane can be
considered a shield of
sorts, protecting the
synthetic world form the
outside world. This
membrane is actually
quite porous…people are
crossing it all the time in
both directions..as a
result, the valuation of
things in cyberspace
becomes enmeshed in the
valuation of things
outside cyberspace”.
Castronova
63. Ohh..so, but how many
people in the world are in
these synthetic worlds?
65. Castronova says:
in 1814 everybody was on foot
in 1914 they were on trains
in 1940 they were in cars
in 2040 they will be 100 million
avatars in the synthetic worlds.
66.
67. It will be more soon!
-SL was created at the end of 2003.
-October 18th 2006, the population of SL hit 1
million residents.
-January 14th 2007, the population on SL was
2,573,932..
68. With this speed of
growth in 9 years,
there will be 100
million people in the
synthetic worlds due
to the popularity of SL!
74. It is certain the coming of
synthetic worlds..
Governments, companies
and people have to work to
create a good membrane
between these worlds for a
future co-existance.